Leonard Weiss is affiliated to the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a National Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Washington, DC.
India's nuclear development has been accompanied by a dual track strategy of developing and building weapons while criticising the non-proliferation regime as discriminatory and simultaneously making public statements and proposals in favour of nuclear disarmament. But with international progress likely on aspects of nuclear disarmament over the next few months, India will be in the spotlight at the forthcoming 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to help move the disarmament and non-proliferation agenda forward.